Now let's talk about Trump derangement syndrome a little bit. So yeah, it was a new poll saying something like, I don't know, half the people in the United States think the president is a racist. Now I tweeted my blog post that explains the two movies side-by-side so you can see that with each of these pieces of quote evidence that he's a racist, you can see that the other movie doesn't see it because there's an alternate explanation which is far more ordinary. And you can see the ordinary explanation next to the hysteria explanation.

And here's the funny thing and the reason I wanted to talk about it. So I got pushback from people who said oh sure Scott, maybe you can explain a few of those things that make the president look like a racist but how in the world are you going to explain all of them? Are you telling me that they're all a coincidence? Sure, if it was one or two things maybe you could change my mind that we saw those wrong. But so many things. Could it be possible? What is the other explanation for why there are so many things?

Yes, somebody's already said to me confirmation bias, but it's not confirmation bias alone in this case. Confirmation bias by itself absolutely would not get you to where we are. What you need is also an enemy press. You need a coordinated press who's simultaneously saying what's the worst thing we can say about this president to make him look like a racist and then whenever an opportunity comes up they gather around it and they make it the story.

Now here's the interesting part. Probably every person who came at me on the internet today and others says the same thing. They say you people on the right are completely hypnotized by your Fox News and your Breitbarts and your Drudge Reports. Half the country are in a dream world created by your media. But how lucky we are that we have the media that serves us up exactly what we want but it's all objective. How lucky. How lucky it was that half the world is serving up complete hypnotizing of its watchers but half of the world is not. Oh god, I'm so lucky. I'm in the good half.

Do you know who else thinks that they're in the good half? Everybody. Everybody thinks they're in the good half.

Now I've said before that the winning team tends to be a little less delusional than the losing team because the losing team has to explain not only the facts but why they thought they were so smart but everything's going wrong on their end, right? So that's a whole trigger that they need to get past.

The people who are winning started thinking hey, my candidate's good and then their candidate won. Their world is still intact. Then they say I think my good candidate will make the economy go well and then the economy is going well. And so the people on the right say well that makes sense. That's exactly what I expected. And on and on.

On the left they have to explain why everything they predict goes wrong. How can you be wrong about everything? About the economy, about North Korea, about you name it. They're wrong more than anybody's ever been wrong, probably ever. You know it might be a historical wrongness. I don't know how you measure that sort of thing but it feels like there are more people wrong about what they expect to happen next and then can clearly see that it didn't happen than maybe ever in the history of the world. That's possible. No way to be sure of that but it's possible.

And so when people say to me how can it be true that there are so many of these examples it's easy. The simplest explanation is that half the country is seeing all the time, all the time, relentless, continuous, non-stop from half the country all the time. And you know what's happening in the other half of the country? Well still a lot, quite a bit, but not as bad.

Now if suddenly a Democrat came to office, let's say you project into the future and I know you don't even want to think about this but suddenly it's President Kamala Harris, whatever year you want to think into the future. At that point the people on the right are just going to flip out and they're going to be the ones suffering the hysteria. It's just not happening right now.

Right now the right, you know they've got their own little bubble stuff going on but it's a very small bubble compared to what's happening on the left. Should the left take power, the bubbles will flip.

All right. So at the moment, to those of you who are Trump supporters, I don't believe you're in the bubble because your side is winning so you don't have a trigger to make you crazy. You're seeing the world just the way you expected it. The other side is not.

All right, bubble flip. Yes.

How do we reduce TDS? Well, the only way to reduce it is to keep violating it. So there have to be enough examples to violate TDS that you could make the case that look, it's obvious now. Look at all these examples that don't go with your interpretation of the world.

There are a few of those now but not nearly enough. It would have to be something big.